now isnt this interesting http://www.goal.com/es/A/80536.shtml (the site is in spanish, run this through babelfish to translate it) "the father of his tatarabuelo was of a family who maintained, although the genealogistas discard it, that were descending of Marco Polo, "Maradona, being most plebian of the world, has in addition a very important aristocratic branch on the part of its Creole ancestry", aimed. " so he is a descendant of Marco Polo. I dont know the english word for tatarabuelo, maybe one of you do (it means great grandfather but i dont know to the exact power)
I wonder how much truth there is to this article. Either way it's hilarious. On Maradona's new talk show his first guest will be Fidel Castro. Jack Edwards was really ripping into him tonight.
here is another interesting part of the article. "According to a study of the presidents who descended from the Spanish monarch, they were it all the leaders of Costa Rica, except seven, as well as those of Chile from 1823 to 2000 - like Allende or Pinochet- except one." i dont know if you people have heard of the conspiracy theories, but some claim that THE PRESIDENTS of the united states all have had ROYAL BLOOD (royal ancestry) and guess what, both Bush and Gore HAVE IT! the conspiracy theorists claim that the one with the most royal genes WINS! something that once made a scandal in england i believe (where this supposedly goes on with politicians) so dont tell your kid that he can grow up to be president
"I wonder how much truth there is to this article. " the article is true "Binayán is one of the participants in XI the American Meeting of Genealogy, coordinated by the Institute Sarmiento Father, whom they attend about one hundred experts of diverse countries. In its work "Sixteen genealogical studies", that this late will be presented/displayed in the Camilo Foundation Jose Watches over by their president, Brown Navy, widow of the Literature Nobel prize, shows sixteen cases of known personages, in special of Argentina."
But of course. They have the same genes. Haven't you heard of the time that Marco Polo scored a controversial goal to beat China's imperial team? He said 'it was the hand of Confucious'. The Chinese got so pissed that they built the great wall to keep the westerners out of their land. True History.
My theory is that everybody who has European blood has royal blood. Since the royals screwed all the common people at will for centuries, if we go back far enough we all can trace our ancestry to some European king. (Or at least to a Duke or Count).
Maradona has Royal Blood??!! You mean he is from an in-bred familiy, a drug addict, who enjoys stealing from others to obtain his great wealth? HEY WAIT A MINUTE, MARADONA IS FROM ROYAL BLOOD!
Reminder to all those who might try to trace Clinton's "royal blood" - Clinton is the name of his stepfather. His real father died before Bill was born.
maybe i should explain the royal genes thing better for those interested there was a controversy in england because some people claimed that elections were fixed, that the candidates with the most "royal genes" always won some claim this goes not just for england but worldwide, that the world "is run" by people of the same GENE POOL. As the piece of the article says that Pinochet and other chilean politicians are descendants of Marco Polo many other politicians everywhere too (famous people too)
I suppose his "royal blood" hasn;t done him any favours judging by the way he has turned out. You could see that he was suffering when he was pictured in that Cuban mental hospital watching the England vs argentina game .
So Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, Jim Callahan, Clement Atlee, Lloyd George, Stanley Baldwin and many other PM's over the years are all related according to this theory ?. Not only that, they're related to say, Gerhard Shroeder, Jacques Cheirac, Bunsh Snr. and Jnr. as well ? What a load of bull. Same goes for the Marco Polo theory, as you'd have to have a pretty complete family going back to the 1200's. Some doubt MP actually existed.
Of course all the Euro heads of state AND the Bushies are related. They all come from the same family of apes that first invented bobble head dolls when playing with their canibal food one awful day. Hey, didn't Seniore Polo invent that game with horses AND has his own line of men's sportswear?
Still wondering how the "Creole" in the translation mutated into "Croatian" in the thread title. Damn, 's a big big world out there...
I'm ready! Just call me when the revolution starts, I have been waiting for years. http://www.earlham.edu/~pols/ps17971/asia1/lavista.html Those Who have Knowledge of the Internet Can Not Be Controlled by The Government
Oh, I could have sworn he was Polish... Erm.. would you mind explaining your *ahem* interesting historical theory ? I always thought a man born and bred in 13th Century Venice would be considered, well, Venetian (I'd probably also accept Italian, even though politically and historically that would make little sense). But... erm... Croatian ? Do tell...
Marco Polo hailed from the island of Korcula, which at the time was ruled by the Venetians (like all of Dalmatia). You could say that this was a little corner of the world where Slavic culture met Venetian culture. Please visit this link: http://www.korcula.net/mpolo/ Also, I have found this article: Sunday, 15-09-2002 We present a most interesting news from the Argentine daily "Ole" according to which Maradona's Croatian ancestor was Mateo Kariolic, and his daughter (born in Argentina), Salvadora, was Maradona's grandmother from his mother's side. In the 1994 Studia Croatica article by Binayan there was a chapter about the same Kariolic... The sensational discovery by the Argentine researcher Narciso Binayan gained a new turn. The thesis of famous Diego Maradona's Croatian ancestry which was covered in a study about "family trees" of 16 well-known people (the study was presented in Santiago de Compostella in Spain) is now deepening and is becoming more precise... Overall, we present a most interesting news from the Argentine sport daily "Ole" according to which Maradona's Croatian ancestor was named Mateo Kariolic and his daughter (born in Argentina), Salvadora, is Maradona's grandmother from his mother's side. The story reminds us a little of a South-American soap-opera but it's fairly convincing. In the 1994 Studia Croatica article by Binayan, there was a chapter about the same Kariolic. The publication refers to Kariolic as a miner in Paran in 1895. His father (Gaspar Polich) was from a colony of immigrants from what was at that time Austria, more precisely from - Korcula [Croatia's Adriatic island], he was an ancestor of the famous adventurer Marco Polo. In today's Croatia there really does exist the surname Kariolic, not in Dalmatia, but in the city of Rijeka and the surrounding towns (Kraljevica, Omisalj, Praputnjak). In the study there was no explanation why Mateo did not have the same surname as his father but carried the name Kariolic. Maradona himself has not yet commented about all of this, even though the Argentine newspapers are full of his pictures; one picture that stands out is from his retirement celebration from his soccer career in Buenos Airies, where he is seen together with his "fellow-countryman" Davor Suker.
Well whaddayaknow... you're right. I really didn't know that (actually, neither does my encyclopaedia which says he was born in Venice, but I found a good few websites that back you up), so thanks and kudos to you.